The first one was a cleverly crafted monster movie. The issue is the concept never had the depth to go beyond that, hence why every film since has been a poor imitation of it, even Spielberg failed to match his own work. There's been no real path for the series to grow naturally beyond film one, so the only way to keep the series alive has been make it ever more ludicrous.
There are/were still ways that it could've grown and improved past the first film. The basic premise of
Jurassic World isn't even all that bad, actually, they just focused on the wrong things in that film and tried to simply redo the first one with more people to eat and a more
extreme "dinosaur" to run from. There should've been more focus on Owen and his raptor pack (since they're clearly trying to get us to like and care about Blue) and how that relationship came about, and if they had to include it, then they should've made the Indominus more of a tragic character. She's supposed to have been hyper-intelligent with a troubled background that led to her escape and killing spree as she tried to "find her place in the food chain", so that should've been leaned into more. Then you could've contrasted that with how Owen deals with his raptors, and then instead of just retreading the anti-science "don't play god" message, the series could've actually gone the next step, embraced the progression of these films and technology wherein and made a commentary on how we relate to other animals and the treatment of intelligent species in a captive setting. (Which is what they claim the
Jurassic World series is trying to do now, but it's clearly not doing it well.) Could've been a bit of a psychological thriller in addition to the typical running-and-screaming-from-giant-carnivorous-"dinosaur" action.
That said, I actually like the Indoraptor more than the Indominus; it's a better creature design and seems a lot more utilitarian. (Why you'd start off your experimental dino-weapon project with a
Tyrannosaurus-sized animal is beyond me, but dumb movie military/evil science logic.) However, if this is supposed to be a horror flick than I'd rather they'd have kept the design a secret, or at least actually teased it more than just straight-up revealing it throughout the trailer. That's one of the few things I actually liked about the marketing for
Jurassic World; they barely revealed what the Indominus looked like for most of the earlier trailers and you never really got a good look at the whole animal until the movie.
This trailer was also significantly better than the first one, at least in terms of composition. (Everything pissed me off about that one; it just felt very haphazardly thrown together.) I had to laugh at the mosasaur eating the guy from the helicopter, something about it just caught me off-guard.
